October 20th, 2014

Wired’s picked up on a new application called Glassbooth that helps match you with the presidential candidate whose positions are closest to yours. In clever fashion, it starts by asking which issues are most important to you and only then goes into specific questions about those issues...

On the rationality of the Iowa Caucus system: “I’m not saying his refusal to take a photo with Mr. Potato Head doomed his campaign,” Green said of Brownback, who has withdrawn from the race. But who’s to say it didn’t? – cpd...

At least one presidential candidate is not ashamed to count bloggers among his friends: according to Katharine Q. Seelye at The Times, Mike Huckabee held a little event here on Tuesday to thank the roughly 700 bloggers who, he said, were responsible for keeping his campaign alive. Because he had...

Slate’s Trailhead column picked up a very fun feature on Mitt Romney’s site on Wednesday afternoon — enter your name and a friend’s name, and this interesting Flash application will record a phone message for him or her. The site lets you pick issues — hmmmm...